Word: compassable
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...foundering ship's funnel that might stand for the end of an era. Then the camera closely meditates a dissolving frieze of floating debris, and lifts its eye to frame, in the light of predawn, its compact symbol of our time: a damaged boat, its compass smashed, its sole occupant a trullish photojournalist who has lived through so much that she calls herself "practically immortal." Further survivors clamber aboard, masked and anonymous with floating oil. As the little boat gets moving, the film suggests Poet E. E. Cummings...
Instead of using cosmic rays or esoteric mathematics for his demonstrations, Professor Ehrenhaft impressed the gathered physicists with little experiments a man can do on his desk with a glass of water, a magnet or two, a compass, some acid and some electric wires...
...indications, the main blow will fall in the west. But Franklin Roosevelt spoke of combined attacks "from other points of the compass" than east and south. That could mean anything from Norway to southern France. This week, as Ike Eisenhower said farewell to his Mediterranean command, he made a flat, unhedging prediction: "We will win the European...
...message seemed proper enough . . . but [Technical Sergeant] Sachnoff became suspicious. At that particular spot over Africa he had never been able to get strong signals from his base, and this message came in surprisingly clear. By using his radio compass [he] was able to determine that this message was coming from a direction ahead of his position . . . he radioed back to his base, warning them of the fake...
...According to Chinese claims the first use of a magnetic compass was by Chinese Emperor Hwang-ti in a battle in 2364 B.C. To guide his warriors through an enemy fog screen, he mounted on a cart a magnetized figure which steadily pointed south. But the real origin of the compass and its first use is uncertain...